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Originally Posted by Buane
It would be collusion if teams were trying to suppress overall salary in the league
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That is excatly what they are trying to do.
A player is demanding a set amount they think is to high so they want to lowball him to suit their needs, but they ignore that fact that it is tied to cash on hand.
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Originally Posted by Buane
What the problem IS: handful of players who price themselves out of free agency by rejecting offers the entirety of the league deem reasonable, instead of accepting the offer if it's the best offer they get.
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If everyone in MLB got together and decided that from now on the max a player will get is 200$ and that is all the would offer do you honestly think that any player would sign even if that's the best they could get?
How is this reasonable or realistic? Oh wait it's not but that doesn't matter does it.
The highest the player gets offered is 400,000 a season yet he feels he is worth 4,000,000 why should he be forced to accept the 400,000 if that's all the cheap owners want to offer. In RL he would tell you where to put it and go play somewhere else because someone would sign him, but in that league everyone works together so he doesn't sign anywhere, that is how it should work.
The point is the demands aren't how the OP likes it so he wants to change the game to suit his league needs, forget if that's how it works in real life or that is how it works in game.
As to an offering staying on the table, just remake the offer again or is that to much work?
It's not silly to suggest collusion, you just provided a reason, that they can resign their own players to team-friendly contract extensions, forget about if it's realistic just change the whole system to suit their needs.